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World Health Organization (WHO)
Document publishing solution

Objective

WHO is the United Nations' specialised agency for health, setting health standards worldwide.

In 2005, more than 40 million people globally were estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS. The AIDS epidemic claimed more than 3 million lives.

To scale up efforts against this pandemic, WHO has been issuing a set of toolkits, each containing hundreds of best practice documents.

To ensure broadest, fastest and cheapest possible access, WHO enlisted the support of Infonoia to make the toolkits available on the Web and on CD-ROM.

Infonoia solution

Infonoia's award-winning solution contains a Content Management System to manage and publish documents and an Administration Console to manage user rights.

It also includes Infonoia search technology which allows to retrieve documents through a free, conceptual search and by metadata.

Benefits

Document authors, such as other UN organisations and NGOs, obtain access rights to upload their documents from anywhere in the world to speed up access.

The network-capable CD-ROM offers the end-user the same user interface and functionalities (including full-text search) as the web toolkits.

Through the use of open source components, WHO can distribute the CD-ROM license-free.

CD-ROM based on Eclipse RCP

The CD-ROM delivered to WHO uses Eclipse RCP and Infonoia Search, a powerful JCR-aligned search engine.

Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) is a general purpose Java-based application framework which operates with the concept of "plugins". It is open source and supported by industry heavyweights such as IBM.

For WHO, the key benefits of using RCP are twofold: (1) to allow future updates to the installed CD-ROMs via the Web, thus saving production costs of soon-outdated CD-ROMs, and (2) to allow further modules such as toolkits to be "plugged in" as and when available, thus providing a flexible environment suitable for the fast-moving field of HIV/AIDS initiatives.

Infonoia Search provides highly advanced, yet intuitive "more like this" search, beyond boolean parameters. The query implementation is aligned with the new industry standard JCR (Java Content Repository), also known as JSR-170.

For WHO, the key benefit of using Infonoia Search is to allow offline users of CD-ROMs the same advanced and performant search features they are used to from the web version of the toolkits, across different content types (PDF, Word, HTML).

See a screenshot of the RCP UI here.

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